“Great Things To Offer”

Special thanks to Windy City LIVE!, Rick Kogan and ABC-7 Chicago for the masterful job they did in telling the ASV story this week. Rick shared a brief history of ASV with viewers, then focused a large portion of the segment on photographer Amie Davis, and how she represents a Visions artist hoping to grow in her knowledge of photography as she strives for greater self-sufficiency through the program. Rick said, “The artists here at the Visions project show us that the often overlooked people in our city have GREAT things to offer, if we’d just give them a chance.”

Please check back, as the video link to the Windy City LIVE! segment will be posted here soon.

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2019: A Great Year Ahead For ASV

March 20-24: ASV will be one of the featured vendors in the Chicago Flower & Garden Show at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Avenue, Chicago, 60611. Welcome Spring and support ASV artists at the same time! See chicagoflower.com.

April 29: ASV’s annual “Friendraiser” at Lagunitas Tap Room. Bring your colleagues and friends and join in the excitement as the ASV annual Photo Exhibition nears. It’s a very fun night for a great cause!

June 7-9: The 17th Annual After Supper Visions Photo Exhibition, 721 N. LaSalle Street in Chicago. Nine months of the artists’ work culminates in this celebration of remarkable photographic art. Please join us!

Remember: You can also purchase prints and gifts all year long on this website. Click on GALLERY and GIFT SHOP to learn more. Thank you for your support of ASV and its artists!

Artist Statements

Photography is an art and I pray that my pictures are a good example of my talent as an artist.

Gerald G.

It was winter and it had snowed for the first time of the season so I wanted to capture the Picasso in the snow.

William H.

When the light came this morning of this day God created a great view, it formed out to be a great picture, and that leaves a great memory in your mind.

Mills L.

My name is Ms. Sandra, I am pleased to see and continue my insight of the 2018 photos. Please enjoy.

Sandra J.

I like to talk to others and see a new life Time is not good, I don have a job or home. Working for it all but pictures and the photo project are helping me to look up. Being with friends at the photo project has helped me.

John L.

I am so proud and humbled to be in this show. I have for so long been called a loser, good for nothing, never amount to anything person. Today I know I am none of those negative things. Having been clean and sober for seven years I can truly say I feel a part of something good. I see myself as being a photographer and an artist. I’m grateful for this social opportunity. I thank God for everyone involved in making this event successful.

Andy A.

In final, the weather would be dirty to a photographer, but we call this skyscrapers. Can fun time and the pictures make you smile? It did for me and that’s why I had fun.

Brian C.

Enjoying the sun reflecting on the building while walking through the city.

Bobby L.

At a young age I was given a camera, and from there I just fell in love with photography, no schooling. Just a passion.

Ruben G.

I started photography as a hobby and it turned into a passion. I find it fascinating to shoot a sunrise and a sunset. Noticing how the colors change as the sun rises in the early morning is like God creating his art. Nothing to me can replace photographing God at this best artwork.

Tommy L.

The Catholic Charities “After Supper Visions Photography”. This career of 17 years has brought out my hidden artistic talent thanks to the “Master Teacher, Jody” of the photography program.

Margaret A.

Photography puts us in the Here and Now. It teaches us beauty, and therefore life itself is fleeting.

Vernon J.

Pictures of any kind are the procreating and production of two God-given eyes correlating and collaborating. If only the world can see straight, eye-to-eye, that would make one perfect picture of a perfect family.

Cheryl H.

I began doing this art project for a year now… but at first I thought it was going to be a waste of my time, but now I’m beginning to really like this program… I love to see the different photos that have been entered in the art show.

Lamont B.

This is my seventh year in the photo show and I love to take pictures of trees and plants outdoors. I like how the shadows fall on the shot. My best picture is the tree with sunshine just on the front.

Jerry T.

I like the colors of my photos and their shapes; how they grow from the ground and blend it out.

Sheri H.

I was so vain at one time until I finally opened my eyes in this photo and seen the world as a whole, our people and places and art come together in our religion as one.

Andrea C.

Bike photo: I wanted a straight photo with a diagonal feel to it. I thought it was cool to take a photo like this. I tried to grasp a photo that no one else takes – a unique perspective. I like my photos to be an art piece hung in someone’s living room or office space.

Anthony B.

I like taking pictures hoping that someone will be inspired by what Chicago looks like through my vision of what I see.

Bobby L.

This year’s photo show has helped me gain more insight to my own life persona in the eyes of this young artistic dragon-sized spirit of mine and I am forever grateful.

Shaolin M.

I love this After Supper Visions event. It is very sobering experience for me. I get a chance to be productive while expressing my artistic ability. After being clean and sober for eight years, I am excited to be an active participant in something positive and creative. Thank you all for coming out and supporting and encouraging us in recreating our lives.

Andy A.

Photography is a recording of expression. My expression is freelance; the ability to share a message, my message is peace and excitement.

Robert N.

I really enjoy the photo show.

Lamont S.

What I like about the project is that it was fun doing it and I hope some sell. I like water and the river because they are peaceful and quiet. I wanted to capture the moment.

Aaron C.

We only must tap into the very inter beings of our souls to awaken the art forms in us all. If you do not enjoy what you are doing you will never be good at it. By Luke Parker. If you don’t start somewhere, you’re gonna go nowhere. By Bob Marley. When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white you photograph their soul. Hippy Ted Grant

Deborah A.

Stormy morning – waiting for the sun to rise. Geese and ducklings swimming and dipping in the water. Getting lost between sunrise and sunset. The beautiful colors, the dark blue water and skylights. Bird watching early morning – what did I miss? Beautiful colors of water and sky.

Ruby T.

Had a good time doing it. Hope you love them as much as I do.

Paul S.

I spent the summer in Cedar Michigan last year, and the view at most everywhere I went was breathtaking, so here are some of the sights I would like to share.

Robert R.

This is a photo catch of Chicago’s Rye. One of many beautiful aspects of architectural foundation. Look, see, wonder.

Ralph W.

The shape of my photo picture is the flower, the color shape of it like shape from the build is how it was the color in it is so good. I like my photo. It is good to have the shape bring out the color in it, just great. It must be my flower that the color brings out. It’s ok to me.
Many things you see can inspire you and help you see things differently, but the moment the eyes to your heart are open it will inspire you even more because now it’s not only the eye that captures what inspires yo…

Joe J.

People will forget what you said…But will never forget how you made this feel. A
Adapted from Maya Angelou

Deborah A.

First, I would like to thank God for allowing me to grace the company of such loving people and their gracious hearts of compassion.
Catholic Charities After Supper Visions project has been a lifesaver for me. To view the world as it truly is in all its splendor. The chance to inspire is my middle name when it comes to photography. Thanks to all involved.

Ralph W.

A. The lady blowing cool water out of her mouth is cool and refreshing for the kids during the hot summer.
B. As a native Chicagoan, I chose to show one of the city’s most popular attractions: the Bean.
C. The skyscrapers are one of the city’s most breath-taking attractions.

Cedell D.

The heavens are higher than the earth symbolized by the globe, it is even higher than the Willis tower aka Sears Tower. It is higher than the flags along with the Willis Tower, and the new Ferris Wheel featured at Navy Pier. To err may be human, but heaven is always divine, and such are we.

Cheryl H.

The day is to be a man’s job. I like to walk and see the Chicago waters.

John L.

I love photography. My late uncle was a photographer before he became a businessman. I love photography for the light, the color, the shadows, and all the varied shapes and dimensions. It is a wonderful hobby, and could turn out to be an extremely interesting profession. It’s also a fun way to be an artist.

Daniel G.

Everything changes through the eye of a camera. Whether it is a flower, a tire, an ant or a person, there is beauty in everything.

Marnee K.

I like to take photos and the pictures I took. It is awesome!

Maurice C.

I was born and raised in Chicago. A city of big buildings and beautiful people. When I take pictures this is my way to express myself, using the camera. I love it.

Robert N.

My photos reflect how I see the city of Chicago. My city is so beautiful in so many ways in how I see it.